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ADIRONDACK MURRAY 

A BIOGRAPHICAL APPRECIATION 

By 

Harry V. Radford 

ILLUSTRATED 




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BY 

Harry V. Radforb, 



NOTE 

T I ^HIS simple biographical sketch of 
a national character, whom I 
had the privilege of knowing intimately, 
was first printed in the Autumn, 1904, 
number of Woods and Waters. It was 
originally written with no other object 
than to do a trifling honor to the memory 
of my illustrious friend ; but soon after 
its initial appearance, a number of my 
own and Mr. Murray's friends asked 
me to put the bit of writing into book 
form, and offer it, between substantial 
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NOTE 
covers, to the thousands of outdoor en- 
thusiasts throughout the English- 
speaking world who revered the great 
sportsman-author and admired his writ- 
ings. 

I was the more willing to do this as 
Mr. Murray himself had expressed the 
desire that I should be his biographer; 
and we were even planning a series of 
visits to his Guilford homestead, during 
which I could take copious notes cover- 
ing the entire period of his life, when 
that life was taken away, and with it 
the opportunity of gathering the fuller 
material for a more serious work. 

The present sketch, however, is be- 

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NOTE 

lieved to be historically accurate, so far 
as it goes; and I am heartily glad that 
while the great man was still in the 
flesh, I was able to gather, during our 
occasional meetings, sufficient matter 
concerning his every way remarkable 
career, to make possible even a partial 
fulfillment of his wish. 

For some of the photographs here- 
with reproduced, I am indebted to the 
surviving members of Mr. Murray's 
family. Those of the Guilford Institute 
and the old town hall were kindly sup- 
plied by Mr. C. H. Scholey, editor of 
The Shore Line Times, of Guilford. The 



NOTE 

remainder I took during different visits 
at the old homestead, between 1900 and 
1905. H. V. R. 

New York, Oct. 15th, 1905. 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Mr. Murray in 1898 Frontispiece 

Facing 
Page 

The Murray Homestead, near Guilford, 
Conn 14 

The Guilford Institute 20 

The Old Town Hall at Guilford 26 

Mr. Murray in Shooting Costume 34 

Murray's Island, Raquette Lake 46 

Mr. Murray at the Age of Thirty-seven.. 52 

The Fireplace in the Murray Homestead. 66 

Mr. Murray's Favorite Sporting Arms.. 74 

Mr. Murray and His Eldest Daughter. . . 78 ' 



UNDER the wide and starry sky 
Dig the grave and let me lie: 
Glad did I live and gladly die, 
And I laid me down with a will. 

This be the verse you grave for me: 
Here he lies where he long'd to be; 
Home is the sailor, home from sea, 
And the hunter home from the hill. 
— Robert Louis Stevenson. 



ADIRONDACK MURRAY 

"TTTHEN the Rev. William Henry 
Harrison Murray — whom the 
world knew as Adirondack Murray — 
expired at his ancestral homestead 
near Guilford, Conn., March 3, 1904, 
in the same room in which, sixty- 
four years before, he first saw the 
light, American sportsmanship lost one 
of its most conspicuous, brilliant and in- 
fluential exponents, an orator surpassed 
by none stepped forever down from the 
public platform, and from the world of 
polished letters there vanished one of the 
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strangest, strongest and most fascinating 
literary lights this country has ever 
known. 

Among sportsmen Mr. Murray was the 
Frank Forester of his day. He typed 
the truest and most enthusiastic school 
of sport and nature lovers. He was a 
sportsman for the sport's sake. His 
prominence was preeminent, his position 
impregnable. He stood head and shoul- 
ders, in point of fame and achievement, 
above all of his contemporaries. He was 
one of the few great sportsmen America. 
has produced. Even his presence was 
commanding. There was a magic in the 
very mention of his name. No one since 

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the Civil War, unless perhaps Charles 
Hallock, has been anywhere near so dis- 
tinguished a sportsman as was Mr. 
Murray. 

As an orator, preacher and lecturer he 
occupied, in his day, the very foremost 
place. He was in the front rank of 
great public speakers when Wendell 
Phillips and Henry Ward Beecher and 
Sumner and Gough and Brooks set the 
country on fire with their eloquence, and 
there are those who listened to every 
orator of note a generation ago who say 
he was superior to all. There has per- 
haps never been an American clergyman 
who held, continuously, such vast au- 
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diences under the spell of his high rhet- 
oric and persuasive delivery as did Mr. 
Murray during the years that he occu- 
pied Boston pulpits. 

In the firmament of American letters, 
he is a star of the first magnitude, shin- 
ing with a peculiar brilliance all his own. 
His stories of the woods and of woods 
life are classics, and will live as long as 
the love of sport and nature — which he 
did so much to cultivate — exists in the 
hearts of the American people. That 
his writings have passed into a 
permanent place in the affections 
of the people, and become thoroughly 
nationalized, could not better be shown 
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than by quoting at some length the words 
of an old Adirondacker in the West, 
writing a review of Mr. Murray's works 
some years ago: — 

"There hangs my rifle; in the corner 
there are my rods; these skins upon my 
floor, that pile of traps, those two pad- 
dles, and all the joy and health and fun 
that they have brought to me — I owe it 
all to him. It was his writings that 
brought out the aboriginal in me, taught 
me what a wretched being a puny, sickly, 
scholarly (?) man is, and drove me into 
the wilderness after health and life, 
which, thank God, I found. 
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"'Critics' and 'reviewers' do not and 
cannot give an author his actual place- 
ment in the world of letters. The people 
do that ; the real author, like the president 
of a university, should be independent of 
and even indifferent to, temporary con- 
ditions. He should hold himself aloof 
from influences and tendencies that dis- 
tract and degrade, and write and act out 
of the forces that are in him, and which 
make him. He should neither be bribed, 
nor intimidated, nor commercialized — 
that last and foulest ditch into which a 
literary man can stumble. And Murray, 
as it seems to us, has kept himself in 
this respect absolutely free from taint 
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and stain. He is always natural, 
genuine, true. 

"Writing on subjects which strongly 
tempt to extravagance, both in the di- 
rection of narrative and humor, and dur- 
ing a period of literary development 
when many of our writers have been 
bribed or forced by the prevalent condi- 
tions into a greater or less sensationalism 
of subject or treatment, he has resisted 
all pressures. He is probably so con- 
stituted that he is not susceptible to the 
overtures of private profit or popular 
fame; for he has kept on writing on the 
highest levels of English composition, 
and with provoking leisureliness, slowly 
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producing a few volumes which, in his 
generation, must look for readers only 
among the most refined, the genial and 
cultivated of our communities. It is 
likely that he has acted thus out of the 
habit of his nature, which, during the 
period of his brilliant career as a public 
man, made him apparently indifferent to 
the eddying prejudices and opinions of 
that time, and gave to his oratory a 
frankness and fearlessness as unique as 
it was noble; but if calculation had been 
the moving cause, it is certain that he 
could not have acted more wisely, for his 
works, because of their excellent and at- 
tractive qualities, are sure to take their 
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place in the permanent literature of the 
country. 

"One thing is most remarkable. It is 
nigh on to thirty years since his first 
volume on the Adirondacks was issued 
from the press of Ticknor & Fields, then 
the foremost publication house of the 
country, with the title of Adventures in 
the Wilderness. Many of us can remem- 
ber the furore that it created. It told 
us of a wilderness at our very doors, of 
mountains and lakes almost numberless 
that had never been measured or named ; 
of a great natural sanitarium for those 
suffering from consumption and pul- 
monary conditions, almost in sight of the 
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chambers where they lay stricken; of a 
natural resort for the overworked pro- 
fessional and business man, the nervously 
exhausted teacher, and overtaxed 
motherhood, where rest and revitaliza- 
tion could be obtained, and of a paradise 
for sportsmen not a hundred miles dis- 
tant from the capital at Albany. How 
strange it seems to us of to-day, looking 
at the mammoth hotels and thousands of 
cottages and camps, which accommodate 
a quarter of a million of visitors each 
summer in the Adirondacks, that Mur- 
ray's delightful revelation of the woods 
and wood-life was not believed! The 
caricaturist and cartoonist pounced upon 
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the young author and handled him with- 
out gloves. Editors of great journals 
called the book a 'monstrous hoax/ and 
noted divines declared that 'he had dis- 
graced his high station by thus practic- 
ing upon the people, especially the 
weakly and the sick, a cruel joke;' and 
those who took the volume as true and 
credible and started northward, were 
stigmatized as 'Murray's Fools/ 

"But the little book, which, as Wendell 
Phillips once said, 'has kindled a thou- 
sand campfires and taught a thousand 
pens how to write of nature/ was not a 
'cruel hoax/ but a truthful revelation, as 
all to-day know, and Murray had not 
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only 'discovered a wilderness at our 
doors,' but discovered himself and a new 
field ready for American literature to en- 
ter and possess. But though thirty 
years have passed since his first book 
was published — and when before has 
such a success not bred imitators? — and 
though all his writings in the same gen- 
eral vein have been welcomed with in- 
creasing heartiness by the reading and 
lyceum public, nevertheless he remains 
to-day as he always has been, the sole 
representative on the platform and in au- 
thorship of a style of description and in- 
terpretation of nature that is as fresh 
and vital as herself, and of a humor that, 

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while it never offends the most delicate 
and refined, is as provocative of laughter 
as humor can be. In explanation of this 
solecism in the world of successful writ- 
ing it has been said that he is the only 
American that is master of expression 
and woodcraft both. But this, after our 
way of thinking, does not meet the case. 
It is an explanation that does not explain. 
The Old Trapper's explanation would 
probably be that he 'had nateral gifts for 
the work.' And after our own way of 
thinking that does explain it. 

"The truth of it is, Murray's nind is 
a many-sided one, and his moods are as 
multiform as nature's. To borrow a 

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figure from the lapidist, his mind is cir- 
cular and cut into facets, and each facet 
is a mirror to reflect what stands over 
against it. Whoever will read his works, 
questioningly as to the source of his 
power, will be impressed with the inter- 
pretive and prophetic character of his 
words touching nature and of his wide 
and deep knowledge of her. His 
'John Norton' is a myth — a creation of 
his imagination — for he has told us so, 
and indeed we can credit it, because there 
never was quite so good a man as the 
Old Trapper is, and never will be. As 
Mr. Murray humorously says: 'He 
had the privilege of making him 
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himself and so he made him perfect. 

"But whence came John Norton's 
knowledge of nature and men, his rever- 
ence and humor, his strong common 
sense and his shrewd wit, his intimate 
knowledge of nature in her every phase 
and detail of expression, his tenderness 
of feeling and strong sense of right and 
wrong, so old-fashioned and splendid, 
and his all-including wisdom which so 
often gives to his utterances the finality 
of supreme authority — whence came all 
these things to John Norton the Trap- 
per? 

"It is not the least of our surprises 
and pleasures in reading these works 
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that when we are fully absorbed in the 
Old Trapper's sayings and doings, in the 
humor, the wisdom, and the piety of him, 
so that we are actually in the woods 
with him and he an actual and real hu- - 4 
man being with whom we are in closest 
touch and sympathy, we suddenly call 
to mind that this character, this Man of 
the Woods, who is so wholly and per- 
' fectly that and nothing else, is a creation 
» of one born in New England, of uni- 
versity education, of civilized antecedents 
by heredity for two hundred and fifty 
years; a man of cities and crowds, a 
finished result, in manners, education 
and speech, of books and schools and of 
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platform appearances — that test and tax 
of highest development. And yet John 
Norton never slips or trips in speech, 
thought, imagery, or habit of life. He 
is ever the man of the woods, an old type 
New England man, with all the strong 
characteristics of the stock he represents, 
developed into a splendid manhood far 
away from cities and trade, the conven- 
tional customs and habits of civilization, 
a man so whole-hearted and wholesome, 
so clean and true, so brave and tender, 
that thousands write and speak of him as 
'Dear Old John Norton/ New England 
never had pictured a nobler embodiment 
of the finest characteristics of her ances- 
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tral stock. Their courage, their rever- 
ence and piety, their shrewd sense, their 
humor, and love of justice, all live again 
and free of accompanying defects, in this 
Trapper of the Woods. 

"Of Mr. Murray's relation to the out- 
door life of the nation we need not 
speak, save in grateful acknowledgment 
of the services he has rendered to the 
American people in this direction. A 
rifleman, an angler, a canoeist, a yachts- 
man, a trailer and naturalist, an old-time 
camper, whose camp sites almost bisect 
the continent in both directions, the earl- 
iest advocate of outdoor life for women 
and children, he has well been called, 
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'The Great Evangelist of Outdoor Life 
for the People.' We remember vividly 
what was the condition of things in New 
England when he began to preach and 
write and lecture. We remember when, 
as a young clergyman, he organized his 
first rifle club in the old conservative hill 
town of Washington, Litchfield county, 
Conn., the fame of which speedily be- 
came a sensation. We remember the 
gossip and scandal because he shot a rifle, 
competed with the members of his con- 
gregation in rifle matches, knocked 'sky 
balls' on the village common for the 
young men, members of the baseball 
team, shot woodchucks at long range for 
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the farmers, and coasted and skated 
moonlight nights with the boys and girls 
of the town. It took stiff New England 
grit even to advocate, much less prac- 
tice, in those days, habits of thought and 
conduct which to-day are universally ac- 
cepted as right and wise. And here was 
a young man, misunderstood by some, 
suspicioned by others, abused by many, 
calmly and courageously urging the right 
of men and women to be their natural 
selves, advocating the liberties of the out- 
door life and world, and pleading for 
that splendid physical and mental devel- 
opment which happy exercise in the open 
air would surely bring to them. What 
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changes has he not caused and helped on- 
ward in the views, the opinions, the fash- 
ions, and habits of the people? Looking 
backward along the line of his life and 
his writings, the changes in the habits 
of our people seem incredible. 

"In John Norton the Trapper he has 
created a character of the noblest dig- 
nity and grace. So true is it to the old 
New England type of manhood that as 
a portrait it has historical significance 
which will grow and deepen with the 
passage of time. Were it not for the 
'Leather Stocking' of Cooper, 'J onn Nor- 
ton* would stand absolutely sole in litera- 
ture ; and even if one suggests the other, 

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the resemblance is one of environment 
and not of nature and characteristics, for 
Murray's hero is as much nobler, wiser 
and more impressive than Cooper's as his 
knowledge of the continent and of wood- 
craft is superior. Cooper was a sailor, 
a naval officer, and his sea tales are of 
the very highest order. But when he 
came to write of the woods and wood- 
life, he wrote of what he had seen and 
known little, and hence unsatisfactorily 
to the highest criticism. But the creator 
of 'J onn Norton' knows the woods as 
Cooper knew the sea — his trails from 
north to south and from east to west 
have never been equaled by any other 
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sportsman, naturalist, or geographer. He 
has seen and studied every phase of 
forest and frontier life, and the char- 
acter of both races, and his knowledge of 
woodcraft — even as his too brief notes in 
Mamelons prove — is so full and accurate 
as to make us old campers and sports- 
men, who know something of the woods 
ourselves, wonder. Among the moun- 
tains, on the plains, and in the recesses of 
that interminable forest of the north, he 
moves as easily from scene to scene, and 
with as much facility and precision, as 
Cooper upon the sea. When we reflect 
that the old conditions of life on our con- 
tinent are fast passing away; that there 
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will soon be no frontier life ; that the only 
connection that the children of the future 
can make with the old-time folk will be 
through literature, it is not too much to 
say that America owes him a tribute for 
preserving to future times a portrait of 
so noble a character, as type of their an- 
cestors, as the Trapper. And especially 
does he deserve well of New England; 
for in his John Norton, more than in any 
other character in literature, do the 
strength, the nobility, the courage, the 
reverence, the strong common sense, and 
the humor of the old-time New England 
man appear. To have created such a 
character and in such connections as to 
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Taken while he was a young minister 
Meriden. Conn., about 1866. 



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make him forever popular, while the love 
of nature, of outdoor life, and of inter- 
esting reading abides among us, is to 
have done what New England should not 
and will not forget." 



I knew Mr. Murray well. We had 
a peculiar intimacy. He was, in many 
respects, a man after my own heart. 
There was no fraud or pretense in his 
love of nature. He did not belong to the 
school of authors who write of outdoor 
life because it is the literary fashion of 
the day, and who laboriously put together 
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words to express an exaggerated and far- 
fetched admiration for the wild creation 
which they do not feel. He belonged to 
no school. He followed no literary cus- 
toms. He inhabited no ruts. He was 
himself a school, which had a thousand 
imitators, but no rivals. Nor as a sports- 
man did he parade before the public his 
prowess with rifle or rod, or line his walls 
with staring, glass-eyed victims of the 
chase. He could have done so had he 
wished, for few have brought to earth 
a greater variety of North American 
game animals, or shot them in regions 
more widely separated, than this master 
of marksmanship and Grand Old Man 

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of the field. As I have said, he was a 
patron of sport for the sheer love of the 
sport, caring nothing who heard of his 
triumphs in the field, and seldom men- 
tioning the taking of a life even in his 
discourses upon the chase. Of his sport- 
ing implements, of which he possessed a 
fine collection, he was most fond. These 
he loved to fondle and inspect. A thou- 
sand times in the evening of his life, as 
he sat before the picturesque old fireplace 
in his beloved New England farmhouse, 
would he glance up at the famous double 
muzzle-loading rifle (made by Lewis, of 
Troy) and the historic paddle, which 
hung above the mantel. Few guests were 
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bidden to his venerable homestead 1 dur- 
ing his latter years (though Mr. Murray 
was a man with whom hospitality was a 
pleasure), and these were always kindred 
spirits — men who he knew could enjoy 
his reminiscences of old-time sport, who 
had a relish for literature and a contem- 
plative temperament, who could appre- 
ciate and admire with him the beauties of 
his rural surroundings, and, above all, 
who were enthusiastic lovers of the 
woods. I was one of those who knew his 
home as an occasional visitor — the 



1 Built more than one hundred years ago, 
the original building, on the same spot, 
having been erected in the early part of the 
seventeenth century. 

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youngest of his group of intimates. A ad 
mine is one of those "thousand pens" 
which he "taught to write of nature" — 
albeit the lesson is as yet but poorly 
learned. 

Mr. Murray came of a sturdy New 
England ancestry that, since their landing 
in America, more than one hundred years 
previous to the French and Indian War, 
had always been attached to the soil — the 
stock that has produced most of the great 
writers and thinkers of the land. The 
farm on which he was born, April 26, 
1840, and where he died — popularly 
known as "The Murray Homestead" — 
had been in the possession of his ances- 
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tors for over two centuries and a half. 
Mr. Murray was proud of the ancient 
family ownership of his lands, and was 
fond of retelling to his children the fam- 
ily tradition, which had been handed down 
from generation to generation, concern- 
ing the great buttonwood tree which 
stands a short distance from the house, 
and which is said to have been planted 
two hundred and sixty years ago by an 
Indian medicine-woman, or witch. Tra- 
dition has it that incantations accompan- 
ied its planting, and that a spell was put 
upon it which would never permit the 
land on which it stood to pass perma- 
nently from the family so long as it stood 
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and lived, but that should it ever, while 
still living, be felled by ax or blown down 
in a storm, the farm would pass forever 
into the hands of strangers. It is need- 
less to say that that tree has ever been 
regarded with the utmost solicitude, and 
the greatest care taken that it should re- 
ceive no injury. 

Mr. Murray's career was a shining ex- 
ample of a "self-made man" — of the rise 
of an humble New England farmer lad 
into worldly prominence and worth. 
His parents were poor, but respectable. 
At seven he began to earn his own living. 
At fourteen he read all the books he 
could lay his hands on. He earned the 
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money to pay for his tuition at the Guil- 
ford Institute by threshing wheat and 
other labors upon the neighbors' farms, 
and it is said that his services were 
eagerly sought, as his great strength and 
activity enabled him to perform a larger 
day's work than most of the men could 
do. He used to walk bare-footed each 
day four miles from his home to the 
school and back again at night — except 
when he consented to remain over night 
in Guilford and room with one or other 
of the boys, which, because of his happy 
disposition and popularity, he was fre- 
quently importuned to do. Indeed, so 
highly was his companionship valued that 
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it is said there existed a spirited rivalry 
among the students as to who would 
next entertain young "Bill" Murray. 
Even in those early years he evinced a 
decided tendency to football, woods 
roaming, eloquence, and English com- 
position. He was handsome and good- 
natured and powerfully built, full of life 
and enthusiasm, and always a leader 
among his fellows. 

Those were the days of the old New 
England lyceum and of debating socie- 
ties. The men of Guilford, like the men 
of scores of other New England villages, 
had their local society. The younger ele- 
ment got little or no opportunity of par- 
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ticipating in the debates, which in those 
days constituted a form of popular amuse- 
ment. This state of affairs greatly in- 
censed the young fellows, who envied 
their elders' triumphs of the platform, 
and could not see why they should be 
shut out from displaying their own ora- 
torical abilities before the villagers in 
the town hall. Discussion ran high, 
and the wrongs of the young men 
grew, as they thought, more intoler- 
able. Finally, the dissatisfaction broke 
out into open rivalry at a sug- 
gestion from Murray. "I say, boys," 
he exclaimed one morning as, somewhat 
breathlessly, and swinging his arms in 
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his enthusiasm, he came hastening up 
to a group of his schoolmates who were 
clustered near the Institute building just 
previous to entering to begin the day's 
studies, discussing with heat an unusually 
successful debate which the grown-ups 
had conducted before a large audience 
the evening before, "let's all go up to J. 
Russel's room to-night and organize a 
society of our own/' The plan met with 
clamorous approval. The proposed meet- 
ing was held that evening and the "Clio- 
nian Society" duly organized. Young 
Murray became one of the officers. Pub- 
lic debates were at once inaugurated, and 
in a short time the new society became 
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so popular with the townspeople that the 
older organization was forced to disband 
because the entire patronage of the vil- 
lagers had gone over to the tyros. The 
young bloods had the field entirely to 
themselves, and old residents of Guil- 
ford say that for several years the 
town hall was packed upon every occa- 
sion that the young men appeared in pub- 
lic. Out of that little country debating 
society have come a number of notable 
orators. One of them — the greatest of 
them — was William H. H. Murray. 

Murray had determined, without any 
encouragement from his parents, to work 
his way through college. Soon after 

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Murray's [si \\i>, Raquette Lake. 
From a woodcut in Wallace's " Descriptive Guide t< 
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completing his studies at the Institute, he 
set out on foot for New Haven, nineteen 
miles distant from his farm — and entered 
Yale College. He had $4.68 in his 
pocket and two small carpet-bags in his 
hands — one with his few books and the 
other with his few clothes. Murray's old 
neighbors at Guilford have told me that 
in order to save his boots from wear, he 
was wont, when walking back and forth 
between Guilford and New Haven, to 
carry them under his arm, not putting 
them on until about to enter town. 
When he started for Yale, some of the 
neighbors said, one to the other: "Won- 
der what Bill Murray thinks he can make 
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of himself?" But "Bill" Murray paid 
little attention to their jests. He had, 
as he said, "taken hold of the hope of 
knowledge with a good grip, and he held 
on." During the summers he worked 
hard upon his own and neighboring 
farms in order to earn money to pay for 
his college education, and each fall he was 
back at Yale, a close student, a prodig- 
ious reader, always good-natured, full of 
sport, and loving nothing better than an 
opportunity to spend an afternoon afield 
with a gun or along some familiar an- 
gling stream. His classmates at Yale 
included Franklin McVeigh, Joseph 
Cook, Professor Ely and Governor 

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Lounsbury, of Connecticut. The late 
William C. Whitney was in his class for 
some time, but graduated a year after 
Mr. Murray. 

A single fact will illustrate the rapid 
progress which Mr. Murray made in his 
studies while at college. Fitz-Greene Hal- 
leck, the immortal author of "Marco Boz- 
zaris," was a fellow townsman of Mur- 
ray's, and though much his senior in 
years, they were intimate friends, mutual 
admirers and frequent visitors at each 
other's homes. It is said that Halleck 
taught Murray much of literature and 
poetry. Recently the story had gained cur- 
rency that Murray had learned his 
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Greek from his illustrious neighbor, and 
that the former often walked out from 
New Haven to Guilford to take Greek 
lessons from the great poet. The facts are 
quite the contrary. Halleck knew little 
of Greek until instructed in this lan- 
guage by his young friend, Murray, who 
early in his college course became so 
proficient that he was able to translate 
for Halleck a letter which the latter had 
received from the Greek government 
stating that the poem, "Marco Bozzaris/' 
had been translated into Greek, printed 
in that language and widely distributed 
among the Greeks with the object of 
increasing their patriotism. 
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At Yale Murray won prizes for de- 
bating and essay writing, and upon his 
graduation in 1862 entered an advanced 
class of the East Windsor Theological 
Seminary, continuing his studies under 
the Rev. Dr. Edwin Hatfield, of New 
York City, serving as his assistant pastor 
until the latter's resignation. From New 
York he was called successively to Con- 
gregational pulpits in Washington, 
Greenwich and Meriden, Conn. 

While at Washington, Conn., an inci- 
dent occurred which is amusing, and 
which showed the marked personality 
of the man rather more markedly than 
the decorous parishioners of that con- 
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servative village believed to be edifying. 
Mr. Murray never lost an opportunity 
to spend a day gunning on the hills sur- 
rounding the village. One evening he 
was unusually late in returning. A re- 
ligious service was scheduled to occur 
that night in the church, and the parish- 
ioners, as usual, assembled in the edifice, 
eager, as ever, to hear Mr. Murray's 
beautiful discoursings upon spiritual sub- 
jects. The time set for the commence- 
ment of the service arrived, but no 
preacher appeared. The congregation 
waited and wondered and grew impa- 
tient. Questioning glances were ex- 
changed, and whisperings grew into ani- 
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W. H. H. Murray, age 37. 

Photograph taken in 1877, when Mr. Murray was 

at the zenith of his Boston fame as 

preacher and author. 



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mated conjecturing as to what could have 
befallen their handsome and talented 
young pastor. Even displeasure was be- 
ginning to be expressed among those 
whose tempers were the easiest ruffled, 
at being thus brought from their homes 
for nothing, when the door of the church 
burst suddenly open, and in strode the 
belated preacher, quite heated from hur- 
rying, dressed in his shooting- jacket and 
velveteen breeches, and carrying in his 
hand his game-bag and fowling-piece. 
Without making excuse for his unortho- 
dox garb, or changing the same for min- 
isterial vestments, he quietly hung the 
game-bag over the back of a convenient 
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chair, leaned the gun against the wall, 
mounted the pulpit, and opened the serv- 
ice. At the close he begged forgiveness 
of his hearers for having kept them so 
long waiting, explaining that it was 
wholly unintentional on his part, but that 
he had strolled so far in his eager pur- 
suit of game without noting the flight of 
the hours that it was impossible for him 
to get back to the village at the time set 
for the service; in fact, he had come 
direct from the field to the church with- 
out pausing to taste a mouthful of sup- 
per, in order that he might not delay the 
congregation a moment longer than 
could possibly be helped. 
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From Meriden Mr. Murray was called 
to the Park Street Church in Boston, then 
one of the most prominent pulpits in 
America. It was in Boston that he 
earned his greatest fame, and won his 
richest laurels as preacher, orator and 
lecturer. 

To say that his career as a pub- 
lic man from this moment was phe- 
nomenal, does not convey an idea of the 
meteoric swiftness and brilliance of his 
rise as a man of national fame and im- 
portance. He fairly took Boston by 
storm. Within a few weeks after his 
advent in the city, the entire country was 
talking of the wonderful powers of per- 
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suasion and masterly oratory of the 
young clergyman who had but recently 
come from an obscure Connecticut 
farm. 

While yet in his twenties he was com- 
posing sermons which were being circu- 
lated and quoted throughout the entire 
continent, and even in Europe, and which 
to this day, after a lapse of nearly forty 
years, are constantly reprinting. At 
thirty he was considered one of the intel- 
lectual giants of America ; and within the 
next few years was receiving a salary 
and perquisites of $15,000 to $20,000, 
besides earning $10,000 additional an- 
nually upon the lecture platform. A 

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single lecture upon the Adirondacks, he 
delivered before over five hundred audi- 
ences. For several years he edited and 
published the Golden Rule, a weekly, 
"one of the few brilliant literary and 
artistic religious papers of its day." 

In the spring of 1869 his first work 
— Adventures in the Wilderness ; or 
Camp Life in the Adirondacks — was 
published by Ticknor & Fields, which 
gave him his well-known sobriquet. It 
became at once the most popular book 
of the day, reached an enormous circula- 
tion, and created what is probably the 
most remarkable movement of hunters, 
anglers and campers towards an Ameri- 
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can wilderness in the history of sport 
on this continent. 1 

Murray's triumph was now com- 
plete. Besides enjoying a popularity 
in the pulpit not surpassed by that of 
Henry Ward Beecher, who was his 



x The "Murray Rush"— still a familiar 
memory in the Adirondacks — began early in 
the summer of 1869, and continued unabated 
for four or five seasons, during which the 
Woods were so filled with visitors — every one 
of whom seemed to carry a copy of Mr. Mur- 
ray's book — that the few rude hotels then in 
existence were utterly inadequate to accom- 
modate the crowds; and guides were equally 
insufficient. Log cabins, barns and tents were 
converted into lodging places; every old, bat- 
tered scow boat or dugout that could be 
resurrected commanded a fabulous rental ; 
and all the farm boys who could possibly 
be spared from home were pressed into serv- 

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warm friend, he was the literary lion 
of his day. Because of his magnificent 
physique and handsome countenance, 
his affable and gracious manners, his 
distinguished presence, his deep learn- 
ing and his religious fervor, his corn- 



ice as guides, at wages not infrequently 
double that received at present by the most 
experienced woodsmen. Hundreds, who, upon 
reading Mr. Murray's narrative, had left at 
once for the North Woods without even writ- 
ing ahead for accommodation, upon arriving 
at the terminus of some stage-line entering 
the Wilderness — perhaps after a nerve-wrack- 
ing ride of forty or fifty miles over an abom- 
inable corduroy road, — finding that neither 
guides, boats nor quarters were procurable, 
were obliged to return at once, bag and bag- 
gage, to the railroad. And yet, despite the 
extraordinary numbers and consequent con- 
fusion, the fullest good humor prevailed. 

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panionship was courted by the lights of 
the country. The greatest states- 
men, the most noted divines, the most 
prominent authors, the leaders of 
thought and the moulders of opinion, 
sought acquaintance with the remark- 



The Wilderness has never since presented a 
scene of such picturesque animation. Many 
of the visitors, drawn toward the Adiron- 
dack^ by the entrancing pen-pictures of the 
young Boston clergyman, were women and 
children; and all seemed imbued with the 
spirit of keen sport and frolic which was 
so well known to characterize their great 
preceptor, Murray. Every incoming stage- 
coach from the railroad — then thirty to sixty 
miles distant — was loaded down with sports- 
men and outers, carrying rods and rifles, and 
bent on seeing as much as possible of the 
wonderful new region of health and happi- 
ness which Murray had so wonderfully de- 

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able young clergyman. Dinners were 
given in his honor by the most distin- 
guished personages in Boston and the 
country at large. Emerson, Longfel- 
low, Whittier, Holmes, Hawthorne, 
Halleck, Agassiz, Prescott, Beecher, 



scribed; while behind the coaches, creaking 
and groaning beneath their burdens, lum- 
bered the slower moving wagons, heaped 
high with the trunks, portmanteaux, tents, 
bales of blankets, and other baggage of the 
sight-seers. Throughout the wilderness 
proper the same gay activity was every- 
where in evidence. Boatloads of jolly 
campers and sportsmen, with their guides and 
outing impedimenta, were constantly passing 
and repassing along the principal waterways, 
which in those days were the only avenues of 
communication leading towards the choicest 
sporting sections of the Woods. The carries 
and trails were thronged. Every log-cabin 

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Phillips, Fields — to name his personal 
friends and acquaintances would be to 
call the roll of the great men of his 
time. For ten years every Sabbath ser- 



halfway house, situated on lake or river bank, 
which made any pretension at all of providing 
either food or shelter, was at all times the 
centre of a motley gathering, — sure to be in- 
teresting as well as picturesque, — in which 
sportsmen and sportswomen from different 
States, togged out in every shade and degree 
of fashion, and lack of it, guides, lumber- 
men, trappers, and an occasional red Indian, 
mingled in a true backwoods democracy that 
was at once pleasant, amusing and inspiring. 
The spirit of fellowship and hospitality ex- 
tended to every camp; and wherever smoke 
curled upward, from any shore, it was a sign 
of welcome to any who might chance to pass 
that way. 

Thousands who came to this region for 
the first time, attracted by Mr. Murray's book, 

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mon that he preached was printed and 
sent broadcast throughout the land. 

There was one gathering of notables 
at which Mr. Murray was present 
which I shall mention, for the reason 
that it had a most important bearing 



found in the Wilderness charms not even 
enumerated in that volume, and, forming an 
attachment for the country, repeated their 
visits, year after year, becoming gradually more 
interested in the region itself, and in the 
preservation of its natural attractions, than 
in the taking of game or fish; so that in 
time there grew up the present splendid 
body of men and women — the life-guard of 
the Wilderness — who, from their long asso- 
ciation with the Adirondacks, their known 
love for, and efforts in behalf of, its forests 
and their wild inhabitants, and their interest 
in its history, literature and legendary lore, 
l»ve coroe to be designated as "A4iron4ackers" 

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upon his later literary work. It was 
a dinner given by the famous pub- 
lisher and literatus, James T. Fields, 
to a number of prominent authors. 

Emerson was there. During the even- 
ing the conversation turned upon the 



— a title that is a just pride to those who can 
claim it. It is to these men and women 
that the public rightfully look to form and 
guide the policy of the State with reference 
to the Adirondack Park, and to exercise a 
check upon any who, through selfishness or 
ignorance, might endanger aught of its nat- 
ural attractiveness or value to the people. 

The Murray Rush gave birth to the guide 
book period in the Adirondacks, which fol- 
lowed closely, as a natural sequence, early in 
the seventies. The few hotels were enlarged, 
and new ones built to meet the ever-increas- 
ing demand. Hundreds of sturdy woodsmen 
adopted the honorable and not tmremunera- 

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question as to what constituted a truly 
"great" story. Mr. Emerson defined it 
as one which would evoke both tears and 
laughter. The definition impressed Mr. 
Murray. Later, discussion arose con- 



tive profession of guides; and from that time 
on the Adirondacks — which previous to the 
appearance of Murray's magic book had re- 
mained an unvisited waste, known only to a 
few adventurous sportsmen, hunters and 
trappers — continued to grow in general popu- 
larity and fame, until, at the present time, with 
railroads penetrating to its choicest localities and 
good carraige roads radiating in many directions, 
with hundreds of hotels — many of them pala- 
tial in construction and furnishing — and full 
as many public and private camps, some 
of which are not less luxurious, these 
Woods are annually visited by not less than 
450,000 persons, and their glories have 
reached to the uttermost ends of the earth, 

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cerning the reason why "great" stories 
such as Mr. Emerson had defined were 
never written which did not contain at 
least one female character. After most 
of the company had been heard from, 
"Parson" Murray was called upon to 



For all this, in large measure, we have 
pioneer Murray to thank. Some persons, as 
Charles Hallock quotes, have deprecated the 
"ruinous publicity" given by Mr. Murray to 
the sporting attractions of the Adirondacks, 
lamenting that this exceptional region should 
have "fallen from that estate of fish and soli- 
tude for which it was originally celebrated." 
But, while it is true that, to a large degree 
the wildness and exclusiveness of the Adiron- 
dacks have been modified by the myriad 
changes which have come to this region since 
1869, and while to some extent the forests 
have been t&inned and the game diminished, 
yet the writer holds the view, that, for the 

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give his views. He expressed the opin- 
ion that it would be possible to compose 
a story that would be up to Mr. Emer- 
son's definition, and yet which would 
not include a single female character. 

Fields never forgot what Murray had 
said, and whenever he met the latter he 
was sure to remind him of the state- 



increased facilities of ingress and improved 
accommodation which his exploitation of the 
Adirondacks brought about, thereby enabling 
thousands to enjoy the incalculable benefits 
to body, mind and soul which life in these 
Woods affords, where formerly they were 
within reach only of the individual, Murray 
has put humanity — and especially the people 
of New York State and of the United States 
— under a debt of gratitude that can not be 
easily estimated, and can less easily be r$» 
paid. 

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ment he had made at the dinner, and to 
urge him to write such a story. In 
course of time Murray composed the first 
story of his series of "Adirondack 
Tales," with the great character of John 
Norton the Trapper as their central 
figure. He published it in his Golden 
Rule. Fields read the story and went at 
once to congratulate its author. "Mur- 
ray, you have done it!" he exclaimed; 
"you have written a story that is up to 
Emerson's definition — for I have both 
laughed and wept over this one; and you 
have not introduced a woman into it." 
All during these years Mr. Murray 
was devoting every moment which he 
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could spare from his clerical duties to 
the pursuit of outdoor sports, to travel, 
and to literature. In 1864 he made his 
first trip to the Adirondacks, continu- 
ing to visit this region annually until 
1877. Even in the wilderness, his activi- 
ties were on a large scale. He cruised 
on countless waters, trailed far and wide, 
and carried his explorations into the 
wildest and remotest corners of the 
Great Forest. During the fourteen sea- 
sons that he patronized this region, he 
brought a large following of personal 
friends with him into the Woods, his im- 
mediate party sometimes numbering as 
high as twenty or thirty, including 

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guides ; for, as might be expected in one 
so genial and generous of nature, Mr. 
Murray was fond of human companion- 
ship, and human companionship was fond 
of him. Among those who thus accom- 
panied him into the Woods (many of 
whom were of national fame, chiefly 
clergymen and authors) was the late 
United States Senator O. H. Piatt, 
of Connecticut, who for many years was 
one of his best beloved camp-mates and 
sporting associates. 

Not always did Mr. Murray travel in 
company when in the Woods, for often 
he entirely abandoned his friends, sev- 
ered communication with even the rude 
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civilization of the forest encampment, 
and, with a single guide for companion, 
plunged into the most labyrinthian re- 
cesses of the then little-known Wilder- 
ness, where for days and weeks at a time 
he buried himself in the untrodden 
wilds. 

It was during these solitary expeditions, 
doubtless, that he gathered most of that 
wondrous fund of woods-lore and woods- 
wisdom which gives to his literary pro- 
ductions the stamp of the master, and it 
was chiefly while engaged in such ex- 
plorations that he performed those feats 
of strength, agility, hardihood and en- 
durance, and those exploits with rifle, 
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rod, paddle and oar, of which, to this 
day, the traveler in the Adirondacks will 
encounter so many tales and anecdotes, 
especially among the old-time guides and 
woodsmen who are able to boast the dis- 
tinction of having, at one time or an- 
other, companioned with this Patron 
Saint of Adirondackers. Mr. Murray's 
favorite camp site was undoubtedly the 
rocky little island in Raquette Lake, near 
the mouth of Marion River, which now 
goes so appropriately by the name of 
Murray's Island, and which in future 
years is sure to become a famous liter- 
ary shrine and a gathering place of 
sportsmen and nature lovers from all 
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quarters of the continent. 1 His favorite 
guide was the great woodsman, "Honest 
John" Plumley, of Long Lake, who be- 
came celebrated as the leading character 



1 Murray's Island, fortunately, is State land, 
a portion of the proposed but long delayed 
Adirondack Park, which, when all its area 
has been purchased by the State (as it should 
be at once), will include approximately 
3,475,000 acres, and will be the grandest pub- 
lic domain in the world. It was upon this 
islet that Mr. Murray for many years 
had his permanent camp known as "Terrace 
Lodge." Here he frequently found time to 
compose portions of his earlier books, and 
from this point, as a centre, he set out upon 
his numerous excursions into the deeper 
wilderness. Some persons have attempted to 
supplant the historic and significant name of 
Murray's Island (given it in loving recogni- 
tion and remembrance by the people) with 
the pretty but far less worthy one of Osprey 

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in Murray's first book, Adventures in the 
Wilderness. From time to time he 
brought out a new volume of Adirondack 
stories, all of which have obtained 



Island; and against this apparent forgetful- 
ness of a great man I make earnest pro- 
test. Wallace, the Adirondack annalist, says 
in his Descriptive Guide (page 430, edition of 
1897) : "This island was so named (Murray's 
Island) because for years it was the favorite 
camping place of W. H. H. Murray, author 
of several charming volumes on the Adiron- 
dacks. And yet, neither lake nor mountain 
1 commemorates the name of him who opened 
the eyes of the world to this grand sanita- 
rium and pleasure ground !" Let us at least 
insist that his name shall be perpetuated in 
the single little island to which, more than 
any other spot in the Wilderness, he was at- 
tached, and which (he has himself told me) 
he would be best pleased to have bear his 



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Mr. Murray's Favorite Sporting Arms. 



The flintlock, formerly his father's, and 
the gun of his boyhood ; the .44 cal. Win- 
chester repeater, which he carried on 
most of his hunting trips in later life ; the 
heavy tournament rifle, with telescope, 
with which he performed his greatest 
feats of marksmanship ; and the old, 
highly-ornamented double Lewis of Troy, 
(muzzle-loading) rifle, " Never Fail," 
which he acquired in early young-man- 
hood and continued to use as a hunting 
arm long after the introduction of the 
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a wide circulation, though the book by 
which he is best known is his first 
work. 

At the age of forty he retired from 
the clerical profession, and for seven 
years traveled almost continuously in 
Europe, Africa and America, visiting 
every State and Territory of this coun- 
try, and penetrating far into the recesses 
of northern Canada. He wrote copi- 
ously, but always well, and besides issu- 
ing numerous books on sport, travel, his- 
tory and education, was a frequent con- 
tributor to the prominent magazines and 
newspapers. ''Sport, history, nature in 
all her moods, romance and story capit- 
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ulated to his fascinating pen." Again be 
took the lecture platform, and toured 
the country, speaking on a variety of 
subjects, but more often reading extracts 
from his published works. "How John 
Norton the Trapper Kept His Christ- 
mas" he had read before half a thousand 
audiences, receiving as high as $100 to 
$500 a night for his entertainment. An 
idea of the immense popularity of his 
writings may also be had from the fact 
that, up to the time of his death, his 
profits from the sale of the "Adirondack 
Tales" alone had amounted to $58,000. 

The last twelve years of his life Mr. 
Murray had lived almost continuously 

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on his Guilford homestead, spending his 
time in cultivating his farm, and in the 
private education of his four daughters, 
and devoting all of his leisure to author- 
ship and the revision of his published 
works. 

The latter comprise: "Adventures in 
the Wilderness!' "The Perfect Horse," 
"Adirondack Tales" (including "The 
Story the Keg Told Me" and "The Man 
Who Didn't Know Much"), "Holiday 
Tales" (including "Hozv John Norton 
the Trapper Kept His Christmas" and 
"John Norton's Vagabond"), "The Old 
Trapper's Thanksgiving," "The Busted 
ex-Texan; or, the Story of the Man Who 
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Missed It" "Mamelons" "Ungava," 
"Daylight Land" "How Deacon Tub- 
man and Parson Whitney Kept New 
Year's, and Other Stories" "Lake Cham- 
plain and Its Shores" "Deacons" "The 
Old Apple Tree's Easter" and numer- 
ous collections of sermons, lectures, ad- 
dresses and humorous sketches. His last 
work was published but a few years be- 
fore he died, and was a description of 
"How I Am Educating My Daughters" 
and received a notable reception at the 
hands of the public. 

Mr. Murray was the same ardent 
sportsman and passionate lover of na- 
ture up to the last. Even during the final 

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Mr. Murray and His Eldest Daughter. 
Taken in 1S96. 



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years of his life he occasionally allowed 
himself a fox-chase in the woods and 
fields surrounding his farm, continuing 
to be an expert marksman until in- 
creasing years and failing sight inter- 
fered with his once perfect powers. Nor 
did he, as the years passed by, lose any 
of the courtliness of manner or splendid 
presence (never so fine as when with his 
crown of white hair he was seen as a 
familiar figure driving through the 
streets of Guilford accompanied by one 
or more of his young daughters) which 
had in earlier life contributed so much 
to make him a national celebrity. Until 
the end, he was always the same cheer- 
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ful, energetic, enthusiastic Murray that 
he was so well known to be "when the 
life within sparkled white to the brim, 
and all flowers were lilies, and all lilies 
were sweet, and the woods were striated 
with perfumes which blew from the 
meadows of heaven." 

The home life of his latter years was 
indeed beautiful. His love for his chil- 
dren and theirs for him was most tender 
and touching. There is a picture before 
my mind, as I write these words, which 
I count one of my treasures of memory, 
and which time will never efface. It is 
of a great man, in the evening of life, 
seated in his ancient and weather-worn 
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New England farmhouse, before the 
blazing fire, enjoying the generous heat 
from a giant oak trunk, "which the Lord 
had felled," and which required all of 
his own great strength to get through 
the door and roll to the fireplace. It is 
"The Children's Hour." One daughter 
is encircled by his arm, another leans 
against his shoulder, while the youngest 
of the family sits contentedly upon his 
knee, and the eldest no farther away 
than is necessary, in a chair by herself. 
The contrast between the strong, white- 
haired man, massive in form and feature, 
seasoned with a wide knowledge of the 
world, and browned and furrowed by a 
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life-time of exposure in the open air, 
and the fair, intelligent children clinging 
about him, jealously shielded from the 
world's taint, modest and unselfish, 
graceful and light-hearted, is perfect and 
highly fascinating. Firelight and 
shadow complete the effect — a superb 
chiaroscuro. 

Mr. Murray died surrounded by his 
family. His last word was an inquiry 
for his eldest daughter, whom, through 
failing sight, he could not see. Ac- 
cording to his request, he was buried 
on the old homestead, to which he was 
so much attached, under the historic but- 
tonwood tree before referred to. There, 
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on his ancestral farm, but a short dis- 
tance from the gray old house where 
in life he had spent so many happy hours 
in the companionship of his wife and 
daughters, and where I had more than 
once known his hospitality ; beneath the 
boughs where song-birds build their 
nests and sing their morning hymns and 
evening lullabies ; surrounded by the 
odorous woodlands through which as boy 
and man he so often roamed in highest 
glee, and almost within sight of the blue 
waters of Long Island Sound (not quite 
two miles distant), repose the mortal re- 
mains of one of the greatest writers and 
thinkers, one of the noblest orators and 

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men and most devoted lovers of nature 
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